Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, Information, and Commitments

While Starhouse Amateur Theatre Company does not consider itself based in any specific city, we have tended to perform in the San Jose area. The City of San Jose is built on the unceded land of the Muwekma, Ohlone, and Tamyen Tribes now represented by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, land stolen by the US government from its rightful inhabitants through a systematic pattern of betrayal and violently enforced removal. This tribe has been fighting for Federal recognition since 1906, and our unacceptably negligent and foundationally white supremacist federal and state governments have, to date, denied even this for over 100 years.

We at Starhouse benefit from this theft, and refuse to continue to do so without some attempt to make it right. Land acknowledgement is, in isolation, a meaningless gesture, merely noting the issue without solving it. Therefore, we commit to sharing the knowledge of the plight of Indigenous groups and resources to support them with our friends and audiences, linking to these resources in every program and acknowledging the nature of the land we work on at every performance. What visibility and reach we have, we commit to using to further that of Indigenous groups in our community.

Knowledge Resources

Support Resources